Notre Dame Tenured Theologian McBrien Blasts Bishops

Catholic Online ^ | 10/8/2008 | Catholic PRWire

[A.A. Cunningham]

Because the episcopacy of the Church is rife with cowards.

[A.A. Cunningham]

McBrien said Pope John Paul II’s greatest failing was naming bishops.

One of his greatest failings was in not dismissing McBrien from the clerical state.

[vpintheak]

Thanks for the explaination. I agree with the mandatum being revoked then I guesss. This guy is preaching the social politics of marx.

[Varda]

McBrien is a diocesan priest from Connecticut. He only gets attention because he’s a heretic. Two sets of people seem to pay attention to him, anti-Catholics and Catholics who want Notre Dame to be more like a seminary.

Granted he is a blemish on anybodies faculty but every university has it’s tenured crackpots.

Unless I’m severely mistaken McBrien doesn’t need a mandatum (they come from the Bishop not Rome) because he doesn’t teach in the fields designated as theological disciplines.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Can. 812 Those who teach theological subjects in any institute of higher studies must have a mandate from the competent ecclesiastical authority.

Mansell needs to bring McBrien home and begin the process of having him dismissed.

rmcbrien@nd.edu

[Desdemona]

Thank you. I said to correct me. I was wiped last night after a LONG rehearsal after the Liturgy for Sunday was changed from ordinary time to the 100th Anniversary of the dedication of the church. We had to switch anthems - and we hadn't seen them yet.

McBrien needs to go. He's caused a lot of damage. Bottom line.

[Varda]

The USCCB Guidelines Concerning the Academic Mandatum say this.

1. Nature of the mandatum.

a. The mandatum is fundamentally an acknowledgment by Church authority that a Catholic professor of a theological discipline is a teacher within the full communion of the Catholic Church ( Application: Article 4,4,e,i).

2. Who is required to have the mandatum?

a. All Catholics who teach theological disciplines in a Catholic university are required to have a mandatum. (canon 812 and Application: Article 4, 4, e).

c. “Theological disciplines” in this context signifies Sacred Scripture, dogmatic theology, moral theology, pastoral theology, canon law, liturgy, and Church history (cf. canon 252)

“Theological disciplines” seems to have the same definition as “theological subjects” mentioned in Canon 812.